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   Carlos E.R. to bad sector   
   Re: TORscape Suse-Launcher VS. developer   
   23 Jul 23 20:07:21   
   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2023-07-23 14:50, bad sector wrote:   
   > On 7/22/23 18:34, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >> On 2023-07-22 20:48, bad sector wrote:   
   >>> On 7/22/23 13:42, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >>>> On 2023-07-22 14:42, bad sector wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I just installed the Leap-15.5 Suse 'Launcher/AppArmour' package   
   >>>>> RPMs. The also and since many years installed and often upgraded   
   >>>>> OEM tarball is unpacked into a remote directory in which the   
   >>>>> executable is the realworld object of a link in many distros used   
   >>>>> and abused. NB. This oem TOR has been working flawlessly, so much   
   >>>>> so that it crashes the least of all 8 browsers employed, and I saw   
   >>>>> no reason to muck with it. QUESTION: what additional advantage(s)   
   >>>>> if any does the Suse (Laucher/Apparmor) give me?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I don't see the relationship between apparmor and tor. No idea what   
   >>>> you are talking about.   
   >>>   
   >>> I don't either but I DL'd the package and 3 items showed up in Yast,   
   >>> all of them from vendor Suse   
   >>>   
   >>> - torbrowser-apparmor-profile   
   >>> - torbrowser-launcher   
   >>> - torbrowser-launcher-lang   
   >>>   
   >>> Newer version available for Tumbleweed, I haven't installed yet, need   
   >>> a reason to do so (Leap was a trial balloon).   
   >>   
   >> Ok, thats simply "tor browser", and dependencies. That's the name.   
   >   
   >   
   > So what do I get for installing the Suse RPM with its rags as opposed to   
   > the developer's OEM tarball which has been working relatively flawlessly?   
      
   Better integration and testing. Bug reporting.   
      
   The organization "tor browser" comes without a customized apparmour   
   profile, so arguably less safe.   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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